Includes index

Links -- Finches -- Crane and Hawk -- Black Suns -- Inland -- Old Hands/New -- Tricks -- Two Days Before Harvest -- The Myth of the Grave -- Pillars of Salt -- Pipeline -- The Orchardist -- The Bottlebrush Flowers -- Plumburst -- Eclogue on a Well -- Wheatbelt Gothic or Discovering a Wyeth -- Chilli Catharsis -- On Entering Your Thirty-First Year -- Warhol at Wheatlands -- Sculpting a Poem from the Landscape's Painting -- Rock Picking : Building -- Cairns -- Poem for Those at Wheatlands -- The Silo -- Why They Stripped the Last Trees -- Fog -- Goading Storms out of a Darkening Field -- Parrot Deaths : Rites of Passage -- Skeleton weed/generative grammar -- Bluff Knoll Sublimity -- Of Writing at Wheatlands -- Anathalamion -- Lightning Tree -- Approaching the Anniversary of my Last Meeting with my Son -- Grave -- Tenebrae -- Solitary Activities -- Wild Radishes -- Drowning in Wheat -- The Hunt -- An Aerial View of Wheatlands -- The Machine of the Twentieth Century -- Skylab and the Theory of Forms -- The Bermuda Triangle -- The Road to Brookton : on the nature of memory -- After Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema's -- Hockney's Doll Boy -- Shoes once shod in a blacksmith's shop -- Il faut cultiver notre jardin -- Hectic Red -- drought -- Funeral Oration -- Holderlin was Not Mad -- Sanctus, Sanctum : a love poem -- Sine qua non -- The Branches -- Field Notes (from Mount Bakewell) -- The Predominance of Red -- A Cardinal Influences Peripheral Sight -- Lyrical Unification in Gambier -- Diagnostics -- Cultures -- The Chambers -- House Eclogue -- Poltergeist House Eclogue -- The Gift -- First Essay on Linguistic Disobedience -- Second Essay on Linguistic Disobedience -- Third Essay on Linguistic Disobedience -- Fourth Essay on Linguistic Disobedience -- Fifth Essay on Linguistic Disobedience -- Sixth Essay on Linguistic Disobedience -- Seventh Essay on Linguistic Disobedience -- The Shed -- Through Vertical Blinds -- The Trial -- The Semiotics of a Truck Overturned in Fog -- On the Rejection of the Term 'Property' for this Place -- The Crest -- Hay Bale Collected Off Road -- Lighting the Bushman -- Fire Before the Others Rise -- Boustrophedon -- The Burning of the Hay Stacks -- Salt Lesson -- Chainsaw -- Against Depression -- The Early Onset of Darkness -- Land Leased Back to Themselves -- Miracle at New Norcia -- Imitations of Sign and Subjectivity in York -- The View -- Location Triggers -- Across the Gravel Wastes -- Mulga Parrots -- Flight -- The Killing Tree -- Removing the Fox Baits -- Cold -- Liminal Devotional

xxviii, 194 pages ; 22 cm

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